The Trump Administration appointee is moving quickly to roll back a number of current and planned pollution controls, including those governing the storage of the ash produced by coal burning power plants.

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In 2008, Tennessee suffered one of the worst environmental disaster in its history. A coal ash retention pond near Kingston cracked open spilling more than a billion gallons of toxic ash over 300 acres and a long stretch of the Clinch River.

“The EPA has indicated that it’s going to reconsider those common sense and long overdue public health protections that would keep another disaster like Kingston from happening -- that would keep toxic pollutants like Mercury and Arsenic out of our rivers and streams.”